Ulysses
The soul is born—he said vaguely—first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.—
James Joyce • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (AmazonClassics Edition)
each man yelling at the others to clear out of his way—all in a myriad of languages that the Jinni had never before heard but nonetheless comprehended, and now he was coming to resent his own seemingly inexhaustible resources of understanding.
Helene Wecker • The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel (P.S.)
I collect sentences I wish I wrote.
Here are 7 to make ya think - all from fiction:
1. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God